Baltimore County, Md: State of Maryland, 1866. Quarto. An outstanding 1866 CIVIL WAR UNION SOLDIER DISCHARGE BOUNTY document from JOHN W ELLIS, an infantry soldier in Company F of Purnells Maryland Legion. COMPLETE, ORIGINAL CIVIL WAR DOCUMENT, dated December 28, 1866, with fantastic MARYLAND CIVIL WAR and PURNELL'S LEGION..... More
c.1970s. Beautiful c.1970s Hand-Carved Patriotic Eagle carrying the U.S. Stars and Stripes Shield in Flight. This piece likely was carved mear the Bicentennial in 1976. Painted in Red, white, blue, yellow and black, this wall hanging measures 19" X 13" framed, with the obligatory 'E Pluribus Unum' hand..... More
Paris: 1751. Louis-Jacques Goussier, engraved by Robert Bénard. 1st Edition. Beautiful 1751 French copperplate engraving illustrating the complexities of 18th-century ship building From the "Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers", edited by Denis & Jean le Rond d'Alembert. Published in Paris, France... More
1918. Two outstanding framed WW I-era silver gelatin photographs of the 'DOROTHY BARRETT', a US five-masted schooner directly involved in the war-supply effort. The Dorothy Barrett, heavily laden with coal, was on a run from Brazil to New England when she was sunk by German submarine U-117 off the..... More
Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1493. 1st Edition. an original 1493 single leaf, two pages, illustrated on each side, from the Latin Nuremberg Chronicle, Liber Chronicarum, arguably the 2nd most important printed book of the Incunabula era, the 15th Century. This leaf, Plate XX, is of Ninive - (Nineveh) depticting the..... More
Worcester, Mass: 1827-1831. 1st Edition. 8vo. A Lovely 1827 manuscript Friendship Book belonging to one 'Miss Mary Steward', presumably of Worcester, Massachusetts, as it is where many of the entries originate. This beautiful piece is FILLED with handwritten poetry and prose and features six original hand-colored watercolors, varying in..... More